So far I’ve entered the CSS below and it’s only changed the background of part of the area. There are still white boxes at the top and bottom, and I’m having a hard time targeting the names of these containers.

John7022 here. I was visiting the forum and saw your request for help.

I went to you site and saw what might be the problem. all those meta tags, title tag, links to the scripts, and the style tags have to go up in between the header tag <header> insert tags here </header>. After that work from there to get your site the way you want it to be.

I have no idea what the white spaces are for. I thought by changing the color for the primary content area it would target that entire space to the right of the menu/widget area. But those two spaces have remained white and I cannnot figure out how to change their color as well.

I’m still new to creating child themes on wordpress. I truly appreciate your help! Thank you!

John7022 here. First you need to back up your site before doing any work on it. Second you will need to download and activate “simple custom css” a WP plugin.

Inserting these rule decorations should get rid of all the white space.
there are 2 rules that will give you a chance to change colors if you wish inst of getting rid of it.

following is the code you will have to insert into the simple custom css editor. These are all in your css style sheet DO NOT EDIT the style sheet use simple custom css editor instead. The changes will stick.

#page:before {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #fff;
<!– change the #fff color to what ever you want or
change to transparent to get rid of the white
space in the upper section.–>
}

body#homepage h1 {
display: none;
}

.genericon-document:before {
display: none; (Add this rule)
}

.content-area {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #fff;
<!– change the #fff color to what ever you want or
change to transparent to get rid of the white
space around the video.–>
}

You can copy and paste the rules into the simple custom css editor if you wish. just cute out the comments.

You will notice that we did not write the whole rule, we just wrote what we were changing and it will stick.

Thank You and try this, it will work if you follow what I said if it makes since to you.